Let's go Jets!

Today's game determines if the Jets enter the Superbowl (it's a big deal because they're the Mets/Islanders of football)! They'll be against the Indianapolis Colts... I HOPE THEY WIN!
Yes, my team of choice is the Pittsburgh Steelers; but they're not in the runnings anymore.... so being a NEWYORKER (insert obnoxious accent here) I (along with the state of New York) will be rooting for our Jets! :)

Tuesday starts a new semester... and judging by my textbooks: I won't have time for blogging anytime soon. My Art History class required not one or two books or the astounding four... but 12 textbooks. I'm starting to try to get ahead on the readings, because APPARENTLY I have a lot of work to do this semester just for this one class.

The other classes aren't so bad. My evolution class required one textbook, and I'm taking two African Literature classes so that's what all those small novels on the right hand side are for. Those are easy, though.  If I had to, I could read one or two of those over a weekend. No sweat. I'm just worried about the stupid art class that required 12 textbooks and ate all of my money.

Yeah, textbooks are expensive.... that lovely shelf of books ran me $600+. For one semester. WHOO.

Anyways, Jesse's band (HAZMATBAY) may be touring come March or April; So to make sure that I can visit him every weekend (not weekdays because I'm in school) I'm trying to get a little bit ahead on my art readings, because I know those are the ones that are going to be the pain in the ass. So far I have Tuesday night's homework done... so on Tuesday I plan to get Thursday night's homework done... and next weekend I plan to get ahead as much as possible so that come March-April, I'll be able to go for the weekends and visit Jesse on tour.
Hazmat officially moves into their studio this Wednesday, which is exciting. There's a dog at the studio, the owners dog, named Phil/Fil. (I'm not sure of the spelling, but Fil is a possibility because the studio owner is in the music industry and may have named his dog after The Fillmore venue. Just speculating... I don't know that) And Jesse's already 80% moved in, so we'll be able to chill as the rest of the band moves in. I also laid out the beautiful blankets I bought for the girls. The embroidery came out great. And I'm sure they'll be useful because that room gets cold when the other people using other studio rooms leaves the door to outside open. (We're the room adjacent to the outside door... it may get drafty)

45 days until I get to go with Jesse and meet my bff & her brother in VEGAS for 311 Day!! :) I'm so excited!!! :D I'm currently in the process of saving for the trip. It's going to be so much fun!! <3 The only thing we have planned for definite is a trip to the aquarium to see the overhead shark tank of awesomeness. Oh, and the 311 concert... which I thought was a given.

Sublime got their name back. Finally, and legally! So they probably plan on going on tour sooooon, which is great because they deserve it after 15 or so years of not being able to play. They reserved their Myspace pages, and Facebook pages as Sublime with Rome, because that's what they'll be calling themselves. I thought it was nice that they are continuing to list Bradley Nowell as a member in addition to calling themselves Sublime with Rome, as they're honoring the death of their friend and former band mate. It's exciting. Also, with this name they'll also be able to take proceeds of their merch/tour money and put it towards the rumored "Bradley's House" : a rehab facility for teenagers. :)

Hurr.

Just because I'm a loser. My boyfriend not only tweeted to PNut from 311. But received a tweet FROM PNut of 311. This... is awesome. (311 is really hard to get in touch with... trying to get a response from Nick Hexum is damn near impossible.)

In other news, the upper supervisors at work are really really happy with my work, which is exciting. This one lady, Linda, keeps messing with me, but I don't care because all of the supervisors love what I'm doing and are recognizing it and complimenting me on it-- and nobody cares about her work. :3

Last night Jesse and I watched "A Christmas Story", what an amazing movie!! :)

And, I watched a YouTube video of a squid using coconut shells for shelter. Vertebrate animals aren't the only ones to know how to use tools. :)

Rock on, Squidward!

Shiny and new...

I just enabled Blogger's 'updated' posting option. It has a jump break thingamajigger, and I've been trying to figure out how to use it! It's pretty nifty, though, because now that text/video problem I have been having-- it's no more! Problem solved! :]

This afternoon, Jesse and I decorated our first Christmas tree at his house. We are recycling the plastic that the glass ornaments came in and didn't kill the tree-- it's fake! :] We had a lot of fun decorating it!

Then came home, to talk to mom... She's been mass-producing her homemade Bailey's. I'm sure there's copyright infringement happening, but I don't think she cares.

My job is missing money. A lot of money. So the end of this year will be a gigantic scramble to pay people and/or find the missing money. (Which won't happen-- there's too much missing) Oh, well. It's not my problem.

Mom tried to get all political on me. I politely declined.


And this morning, I was PSYCHIC.
Ready?
This morning I woke up, and Adam Sandler's Hanukkah Song was IMMEDIATELY stuck in my head. Now mind you, at 6AM, I don't know what day it is or even where I am half the time, so I definitely didn't know that tonight is the beginning of Hanukkah until I looked at Facebook and loudly asked myself "HOW DID I KNOW THAT?!"
THEN- On my way to work, I was listening to Weezer, and started thinking about how they've been selling Weezer Snuggies with their Raditude CD, and how AWESOME it would be to get a Weezer Snuggie. I get to work and one of my co-workers starts talking about how she bought all of her grandkids Snuggies for Christmas. Again, I loudly asked myself, "HOW DID I KNOW THAT?!"

Yep. I was a psychic for like.. two hours. I should've bought a lotto ticket, but I didn't think that far in advance.

Work was work, and then I conquered the LIE for the first time by myself (I'm a very nervous driver) which was exciting because I didn't die. THEN, I BACKED INTO A PARKING SPOT, without hitting anything. (Again, nervous driver-- we seldom drive backwards)

THIS JUST IN- Jesse updated the Hazmat Bay Myspace, and it looks AWESOME!
He did a great job with it! It looks great!! I'm glad he did it, because if he relied on anybody else it would've taken another eternity...

Okay, I'm done... bye.

Hawaii?

I miss my Hei Matau. Bret best be taking good care of it... Maybe it's in Hawaii right now. I'm certainly not... Lucky necklace. I am here, in New York, dogsitting Bosley for my neighbor. He's cute. He follows me around everywhere. I love it.

Going to 311 Day in March. :)

Booked the hotel a few weeks ago, and got the tickets on Saturday. All that's left is an airplane to get us to Vegas. Yeah, 311Day isn't in New Orleans (N'Orleans?) this time.. there was a poopy medical convention planned for that week, so 311 couldn't guarantee any hotels to be blocked out for their fans to stay in. It's a dumb situation, but! I get to go to Vegas, now! :D So, that line on my 101 in 1,001 must be changed from "Go to 311 Day in New Orleans" to "Go to 311 Day in Vegas" because my 1,001 days will be over by next 311 day. And and and: Moon and Dave are going tooooo! <3>

Bret told us he might be able to get us to meet the band on 311 day. It'd be sick.

Jesse, too, has a link to 311...

Are you ready for it?... Here it comes...

He is now proudly endorsed by DIAMOND AMPLIFIERS!

That's right. You know... 311's guitar player... that guy, Tim Mahoney. Welllll if you look at his INTENSE-ASS rig, you'll see that it features all things: DIAMOND AMPS. YES. Jesse and Tim Mahoney are now co-endorsees. THATS FUCKING RIGHT!

I'm so proud. Also- same day- somebody in the Netherlands made a fan page on their version of Myspace for Hazmat Bay. An endorsement AND an out-of-country fan page?! In one day?!@ FUCK YEAH.

Tomorrow night is the celebration of good things that happened this week. I love it! BTW, as of this morning, I'm mostly debt-free. (Aside from school loans) Good stuff.

Was invited to Hawaii or Puerto Rico on Tuesday. Ashley invited us to pick where we wanted to go, and we'd go this winter. BUT we're saving up for 311Day in Vegas so we can't go this winter. Re-scheduled for next winter. Boo-yeah. I lean towards Hawaii... even though we can't stay with Pepper... they sort of live in California now.

Much bullshit has been going on, on the Sublime battle.

In a nutshell:

Bud&Eric- let's play again! :D

Nowell family- no!

Silverback Mgmt- How the Hell did I get dragged into this?

Court order- no!

Bud&Eric- ohh man. D:

So there's like 100x more drama than mentioned above... but that's the jist of it.

That's it. Stony Brook is evil. REAL fucking difficult. Work sucks, but hey, it's money that will get us to Vegas, + Christmas shopping.

I'm done.

New.

Recently I haven't had time to come on here, so here's the latest.

Last week I went to see Up with Jesse and Moon. The beginning was mundo depressing (but then again, it's Disney) but after that it was incredible. We saw it in 3D which was fun, and I think that Moon and I enjoyed it more than the kids in the movie theater did. The two of us laughed hysterically at a recurring circumstance in the movie, where the kids in the theater didn't seem to think it was as funny as we had thought. Overall it was a very enjoyable movie. So if I were to rate it, I'd give it a solid 7/10 just because the beginning was so depressing it was hard to continue to watch the movie.

Yesterday I had my Stony Brook University orientation. It went fairly well; I had taken my math placement exam and placed very poorly, so I will have to re-take that before the semester starts. I made my class schedule and it looks overwhelming, but hey, what's a university if you're not overwhelmed? The campus is beautiful, and the advisors are nice and they have a clue of what they're talking about, unlike Suffolk Community. Yesterday I also made my last trip to Suffolk Community to send over my latest transcripts to Stony Brook. Needless to say, I wanted to walk out of there with my middle fingers held up high.

So other than that, Jesse and Hazmat Bay found a new drummer, Rob. They have a show at the Mooselodge on Friday, then their release party is on Tuesday for their new CD "The Red Tide". I haven't heard the whole thing yet, but so far it sounds spectacular. And I'm not just saying that because Jesse's my boyfriend and it's his band... I'm saying it because I mean it. For realz. Then after that, they have another show at Traxx in Ronkonkoma in July, and at Spoon in August. And after that, Jesse and I are going to see Blink-182, Weezer, and Taking Back Sunday! <-I listed those in order of importance, not appearance.

Um other than that nothing is really going on. Except for the fact that next Saturday is my best friend's moving away forever and ever party. :[ I'm gonna miss her. She's been my BFFF for 10, almost 11 years. And now she's going ALLL the way down to North Carolina. Instead of me traveling 3 blocks, I'll have to travel like... a million. Not good, not good.

Well, I've got to get to work.

Crazy fool.

This week has been... emotionally devastating.

Lets work our way down the list.

Saturday- Was AWESOME! Jesse and I went to Pepper with Moon, and we got super special backstage passes that not even the family of the bands get; thanks to Bret and Da Coach. So that was an altogether AWESOME day.

Sunday- I woke up and saw that Bella had diarrhea. Cleaned her up and went to Jesse's house.

Monday- Last day of school, Jesse's car failed inspection. Jesse and his dad got into an arguement. Came home, and Bella was dead. So we had to bury her. And I'm still really upset about it. I loved her so much. She was my little one. <3

Tuesday- Went to work, at 9am I got a call from Brian's school saying that he was going to the hospital because he was having chest pains and he looked pale. Then later on, at about 3:30 we mom and dad decided to admit him to stay overnight. Still recovering from Bella passing away: I was VERY stressed.

Wednesday- Brian had his tests done, nothing came up. Probably have to admit him again. Jesse and I argued. I'm having a really tough time recovering from Bella's death. Brian gets out of the hospital, so I order prints of Bella and the Pepper show, have some enlarged and frame them and put them on my wall. <3

Thursday/Today- Realize that I fucked up my payroll timesheets the past 3 weeks. Fixed the problem. Put all sorts of money away. Drive past Moon's to see the For Sale sign. :/


I'm still really upset about Bella being gone. She was too, too young. I feel terrible for not knowing that diarrhea with rodents is a really bad thing. I wish I could've helped her, I wish she didn't die. I miss her a lot, and my room's really quiet. I miss how she used to talk (grunt, really) at me, and play hide and seek, and breakdance, and play with her ears when I said "ANTENNAS... UP!" I miss my little friend, a lot. More than I should miss my rabbit. You'd think I lost a dog or something that has the stereotypical bond as "mans best friend" but Bella was my friend and I loved her so much. I still do. I miss her. My room's so empty without her. I hung up the moose that I got with Bella. It's in my car. <3

Summer?@! REALLY?%#@$%

It got nice out. Very, very nice out.

Yesterday, Jesse, Ashley, and I went to Gilgo! It was so much fun, but I got terribly sunburnt! :[ I have raccoon eyes from my sunglasses! :/
On Friday, Jesse took me to see Earth by Disneynature, and it was WONDERFUL! Then afterwards, he took me out to eat at Outback! :B My favorite!! <3
Today Jesse and I were supposed to go with Ashley to Fire Island, but last night some brawl happened at her boyfriends lacrosse game and she has to go to a meeting b/c she has pictures for it, and then he surprised her with Mets tickets, so she's not hanging out at all today, which sucks. But whatevs, it happens. I'd go to see the Mets if Jesse surprised me with tickets, too!

So today, Jesse and I are going to Gilgo and his mom's coming with us, and maybe Megan, too! :] I invited Moon, but she's going to the city with her grandpa.

That's really all, there's only 23 days [including this one] left until summer vacation! :]

Spring?

Maybe? It's 60 degrees outside... which is AWESOME. But it's windy as hell and the temperature is supposed to go down again, soon.

Yesterday, Brian turned 18... which means it's time to flee the country. My mom went to Vegas yesterday, too. It's hot there... but it's not hot here. :[

I think tomorrow, Jesse and I are going to go to the Cony Island Aquarium :] I hope we do, it'll be really fun!! :D It's not too expensive, either. <33>:]

nothing exciting...

...except for the 8-14 inches of snow Long Island is supposed to get tonight/tomorrow. Maybe Suffolk will cancel classes? Wishful thinking, I know. But if classes are not canceled... there's a good chance I won't be showing up to any of them anyway. Life>School.

I haven't been able to photograph/draw/art anything lately... which blows. My excuse for the photography is the constant snowy/crap weather that makes for cold hands. And, for everything else: I've been busy. While I have the free time, I should probably be typing more of my rough draft for Contemporary Global Literature.... but I can't think anymore.

Last night, Jesse had a show at the Spoon. I did my Lit. essay the whole time. It's not due until next Monday... but, Lord knows what will pop up this week.

Apparently- today was the Album Art deadline for Jesse's band. Wonder what will come of that...

Oh-OH! Friday- WATCHMEN comes out in iMAX! WHOO! I'm pumped! Yesterday, Moon and I went to see Coraline. I honestly don't know what it was about. I should look it up, because I was confused throughout the entire movie.

Nothing special...

This weekend I'm at dad's place. I failed to bring my laptop, which has proven itself to be a stupid move... I could've kept editing pictures, and continued to place my order for 30 free prints at Snapfish; before they expire. Duh. Had I had my laptop, I would've been able to not one, but two things on my 101 list. Oh well. I'm already working on the tattoo idea. I just need to draw it up and stare at it for the better part of a year. I think I want to do a subliminal ode to 311. What I'm thinking of is 3 Hawaiian plumeria flowers in a bundle, with 1 hibiscus flower at the top-right, and 1 palm of a palm tree sweeping back to front on the bottom of the 4 flowers. Get it? Get it?! 3 plumerias, 1 hibiscus, 1 palm. 311! It's so subtle that if 311 does something entirely craptastically stupid that I grow to hate them with an undying passion [which will PROBABLY never happen], that I don't have a blatant 311 tattoo on my back. IT'S GENIUS I TELL YOU! :] I'm so excited.

For most of the others on my 101 list, I've come to learn that money is really sort of necessary... meaning: I need a fucking job.... still. But thanks to the economy and job market, it's really fucking hard to find one. I'm hoping that Hollywood Tans still has a position open... punching buttons on a computer can't be that difficult. Other than that, finding help wanted ads right now is just about as difficult as finding a giraffe in Lindenhurst. [For the record: Lindenhurst doesn't have a zoo... or any giraffes.]

The Presidential inaguration is coming up soon... I think it's on Tuesday? The 20th? I don't know, I'm no good at remembering dates. Though, I did remember that TODAY IS MOON'S BIRTHDAYAYAY! She's 20 now... it's weird. Now I have a few months to catch up, and be 20. There's nothing that special about turning 20 except... being 20... and not 19... and not being able to say "teen" at the end of your age... but I probably will.... I'll probably say "twenty-teen" because it'll make me feel better. :P It's weird thinking that Moon and I have been friends for just about 10 years now.

Today I'm hanging out with Jesse :D. I don't know what we're doing yet... I think tonight we're hanging with Erik. I have no clue, though.

While I'm on the computer, I should probably make a calendar so that I can do all of my 1 and 2 month commitments at the same time for my 101.

Ohh holy craaaap...

I thiink I blew my fooooot oofff!

It's been a while since I last updated. I'm at the jolly start of the Christmas season! 19 days until the big day!!

I've been really busy with school and homework and such... Even today, I've got loads of stuff to do... I just don't want to do it yet.

School's almost over, I think there's 13 days left of that. Then I get a month and a half vacation or something. A month and a half in which I'm going to Florida and the Bahamas with my love, Jesse! YAYAYAY.... I still need to tell my mom... My dad knows... I just forgot to tell my mom.

Three days before Thanksgiving, I was fired from Bally's.. Awesome. So I've been job hunting ever since. I'm qualified for training in January for Saf-T-Swim, but that place sucks. I don't want to get paid just above minimum wage to be peed on, pooped on, and vomited on. Ew. Jesse said that Citizens Campaign for the Environment is hiring, but that's a job in which I would need to collect pledges... which is hard work. But it pays well and it has to do with my major, so that'd be cool. My mom also said that she MIGHT be able to hook me up with a job at the county with her, where I might get paid $12/hr. Which is awesome. It just sucks that it's probably cubicle work. But I'll take what I can get as long as it's not Saf-T-Swim. :[

On Thanksgiving, I found out that my cousin's having a baby! Awesome! So that's exciting, but she's at high risk until the start of her first trimester because of some sort of infection she had when she was younger or something like that... so we can't get too carried away until she's taken off of high risk. But it's still exciting!

So yeah, I'm at Nancy's right now; Brian and I get to stay in Steven's room because Chuck leased a house by the Chateau La Mer. So the boys are going to stay there. And Brian and Dad are going to Aunt Diane's to pick up new furniture for the living room. Then dad's helping me with my First Aid paper on Firefighting... Which I think this is the first time my dad's ever helped me with my homework... and I'm in college.

Kristina's here... looking at everything I type.
Pce

On a Sunday morning...

So, the two weeks from Hell are over. GOOD. Now I get to start another two loong weeks. But, maybe being off from work on Halloween will help speed it along a little bit; especially since it's payday.

On Friday, Jesse's brother came in from Boston. We all ate pizza and played Music Scene It?. Then yesterday, we went over by the brand new Tanger Outlets in Deer Park, and looked around there for the second time. They have a PacSun outlet that's mundo cheap! And they've got a lot of beach stores that are still awaiting to be open. Today, Jesse, Erik, and I are going out to the city at around 12-ish. We're going to see Pepper at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza, so we're going to hang out in the city until 7 when the concert starts. I just formatted my memory card, and charged up my battery, so maybe, JUST MAYBE I'll have some DeviantArt worthy photos to FINALLY update my account.

Today I joined 'Twitter' which is like Facebook, only without the narcissism and you only get to work with one-liners. It's pretty cool... except nobody I know has it... so I'm kind of lonely on there. I'm doing what I can to stop using Facebook... this is my weening period. Haha.

Wednesday is my Stars and Constellations test in Astronomy for the Fall and Winter sky... and I do believe that it is quite difficult to just name one star out of a million, and put a constellation together out of nowhere... but I'm getting good at it.

It's time for me to get ready to go to the city. It's 9:11, and we're leaving for the train at 11:45... and I'm a girl so I should prob. get a head start on the guys. AHAHAHAHANOTFUNNY.

I love Jesse!

Is it a break, or procrastination?

I'm taking a break from the 4 paper I just wrote... My brain hurts. but not only from the papers. Probably also from the fact that last night I was really drunk. Really. So I get to deal with my hangover... which isn't that bad, it's just a headache.

Yesterday was Jesse's birthday, so he had his friends come over his house, and we all drank ourselves into oblivion. It was a lot of fun. We were drunk, some were stoned, and we were watching the Presidential Debate... or at least trying to. We're such party animals. Bobby brought White Castle, though, which was great. For some reason I decided that eating my White Castle burger box was a great idea. You know, fiber for the day. So, yeah, we tried to pay attention to politics, even though the only thing I got out of the whole debate was Sen. McCain comparing the height of Asians to the height of Americans, for some reason. We all thought that was funny. We watched the debate, and then put on The Yellow Submarine. Party Animals. Haha, that's okay, we had fun. I almost died laughing like, a hundred times. I woke up this morning, and I'm pretty sure I was still drunk. Walking was a difficult task. But I got lucky, I didn't have to vomit or anything. I did good. :D

I'm watching The Muppets Take Manhattan right now, it just took me the length of the movie, V for Vendetta to write 3 papers. I'm trying to get all of my homework done before tomorrow so I can just relax all day tomorrow. But since I'm taking a break right now, I don't know if I'll go back to doing homework because my brain hurts so bad. I don't know. I'm not interesting today. I blend in with today's weather... overcast, grey and blaaaand.